David R. Evans

David Read Evans (20 February 1769-8 March 1843) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-SC 5) from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1815 (succeeding Richard Winn and preceding William Woodward).

Biography
David Read Evans was born in Westminster, England in 1769, and he and his father emigrated to the United States in 1784 and settled in South Carolina. Evans became a lawyer in Winnsboro in 1796 and served in the State House from 1802 to 1805, as solicitor of the middle judicial circuit from 1804 to 1811, in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1815, and in the State Senate from 1824 to 1832, and he died in 1843 at the age of 74.